Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25d2b9907faceb88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:32:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 6ac51d0e8224bf77c19f748821bc156d SHA-1: d08e84a084d63448f1ce69878526d96f795f16f1 SHA-256: 25d2b9907faceb889ad7bf1e62ff9d1f5215fe4ea796b45bdcd1a9203f859fc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diazepam+with+propranolol PDF link annotation
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081948e5cb11---sujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bichvan.vn/upload/files/getupesamuwawulekarutosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1df75de807239feb14dc93318e81fa1a/92202476177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210621075311612824311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ea61d469f8315dfd488a81b2175060/52566567040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31904542302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c04c233879---29611805124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098eab42526c---82070253046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/gitavukiriba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70087169754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8616040159---wanova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2s26ooaoraqtp6sfc24bak12n5/zeboginogibuwijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/73825994834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/lupasuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcb8c31385655b84eea8391325e948d9/negiteguzemazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/11347531353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc6ea4b0c01fd1f2cd5b93810e0b51a5/savebigavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3cfee3753---50103324385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d084c2b79---9464090666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/85735401766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/76019310535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgestone-ice-cruiser-7000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40656215354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab99733ee4745639a31f4ec7e61102b/10914801982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4A 17532 bytes
SHA-256: 80a29cbf94ef598d6f5482cd18a7841692b16ba21a469a3cf0f1e45ba9c8935e
font_01_sfnt_off00010b38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001234f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234F 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 9ef2e11b37aeae7a1818d489c268c6b402d5af76ad69a6a2a319a02bb8217e48